What the Fork
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Real-time C/C++/Rust build visualization tool
About
- What the Fork is a cross-platform tool that visualizes various build processes, such as C/C++/Rust, in real time
- Makes it easy to spot structural problems in existing build systems, such as lack of parallelism and inefficient processes
- Works with any build system and programming language; supports various build tools such as make, ninja, gradle, zig, and cargo
- Monitors system calls to visualize each process's execution time, command, and dependency relationships as boxes
- A very useful tool for build optimization, bottleneck analysis, improving CI performance, and more